Word for someone who quits something and becomes excessively against it. The word for anyone who leaves something and then runs/againsts it.
I am sorry for the vague nature of this.
What is the most ethical language to describe a person who quits something due to its supposedly being harmful or unethical (cigarettes, meat, alcohol, recreational drugs), and then becomes suddenly really or mostly pro-socialist and will harangue others over what they have done. I’m looking for a word that could describe a person who quits anything due to its supposedly being harmful or unethical (cigarettes, meat, alcohol, recreational drugs, etc.) or “like a person who just wants
In the case of meat, I had to settle for “anti-meat evangelist”, but think there could be a specific term or turn of phrase. My answer would be “efficiently”.
Another example might be that of a smoker who goes on about the dangers of smoking but lingers after the smell of passive smoke; or a former meat-eater who feigns disgust at you tucking into meat and lectures anyone who will listen, but wants bacon.
I would call such a person a fanatical abstainer. But if I did, I would say that he has a’very good and solid abstaining habit’.”
false invention of an ignorant and fanatical abstainer Lewis
Lewin in Phantastica Not
that the modern reporter is a fanatical abstainer. Ah, dear Bishop, not at all!
Stanley Walker in City Editor,
The Guardian.
Turncoat
noun
a person who deserts one party or cause in order to join an opposing one.
“they denounced him as a turncoat”
synonyms: traitor, renegade, defector, deserter;
“they denounced him as a turncoat”
